To be fair to Burnham allowing licences for Jackdaw is an essentially meaningless gesture, pick your battles etc etc. it's an easy option even I would choose. The risk with Burnham is that he on… (View Post)

At the end Odysseus also said ‘thank God that’s over.’ (View Post)

I wasn't involved in financial services back in 2008, but I would slightly challenge that everyone knew, say a year before, that the whole thing was going tits up. It's something people alw… (View Post)

They tightened up Financial Services regulation very significantly after GFC - no-one wants to be on the hook for too-big-to-fail banks again. But is it enough to prevent a repetition? The dirty secr… (View Post)

It's a sign of a low trust society I think. A wholly bad thing. If people think "they're all at it" you lose all sense of proportion. And as we're seeing on this board, the m… (View Post)